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moonfish

moonfish noun: any member of the species Mene maculata (razor moonfish), sole accepted, extant species of family Menidae, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific area;.

moonfish: any member of the species Mene maculata (razor moonfish), sole accepted, extant species of family...
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Noun

moonfish (plural moonfish or moonfishes)

  1. Any member of the species Mene maculata (razor moonfish), sole accepted, extant species of family Menidae, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific area;
  2. A platyfish, of either of Xiphophorus maculatus or X. variatus (family Poeciliidae).
  3. Any member of most species of the genera Selene and Paraselene (family Carangidae).
  4. Any member of the genus Lampris of opahs (family Lamprididae);
  5. Any member of the species Mola mola (common mola or ocean sunfish; family Molidae).

moonfish meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

moonfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

moonfish in Tagalog

any of various flat, oval marine fish species
tabas
Mene maculata
tabas

Forms of moonfish

pluralmoonfish
pluralmoonfishes

Origin of moonfish

From moon + fish, from the silvery color, parallel to the synonymous Dutch cognate maanvis.

Words formed from moonfish

  • African moonfish
  • Atlantic moonfish
  • Brown's Caribbean moonfish
  • mariposa moonfish
  • Mexican moonfish
  • ocean moonfish
  • Pacific moonfish
  • Peruvian moonfish
  • razor moonfish
  • sailfin moonfish
  • silver moonfish
  • southern moonfish
  • spotted moonfish

Questions about moonfish

What does moonfish mean?
Moonfish means any member of the species Mene maculata (razor moonfish), sole accepted, extant species of family Menidae, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific area;.
What is moonfish in Tamil?
Moonfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Moonfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is moonfish?
Moonfish is a noun.
What is the plural of moonfish?
The plural of moonfish is moonfish.

Words near moonfish in the dictionary

  1. mooneys
  2. moonface
  3. moonfaced
  4. moonfaces
  5. moonfall
  6. moonfish
  7. moonfishes
  8. moonflask
  9. moonflasks
  10. moonflight
  11. moonflights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moonfish (page history and authors); moonfish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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